Nudes in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment were covered up after they were found to contravene a ban on "lasciviousness" in art (Credit: Getty Images)
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Michelangelo to Banksy: The controversial artworks that fell foul of the law - and were erased - BBC
Prefiguring Banky's latest Royal Courts of Justice mural depicting a judge attacking a protestor, are centuries of art history where works have been censored or edited.
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